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Description: | Incomplete Medieval furniture fitting or book fitting. U-section binding, broken at both ends, gilded externally, decorated with transverse grooves between broad transverse fluting. One small (1mm diameter) attachment hole placed centrally in one flute. Similar to another example from Quidenham (HER 24050) and one from Middle Harling (HER 6033) which Margeson considered ?likely to be from the overhanging lid of a casket or possibly the edge of a book-cover.? (EAA 74, 66-7, fig.47 no.101). Length >42mm. Height 4.5mm, width 8mm. 11th or 12th century, but possibly earlier. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1000
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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